Books written by Adrian Poole

Great Shakespeareans Set II

Martin, Peter, Edmond Malone: Shakespearean Scholar. A Literary Biography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995). Murphy, Andrew, Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare ...
Victorian Shakespeare: Volume 2: Literature and Culture

Information from The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson 1821–1850, ed. by Cecil Y. Lang and Edgar F. Shannon, Jr. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982), I, 182, n.1. Preface to Mr Wray's Cash-box in Wilkie Collins, The Frozen Deep and Mr Wray's ...
Fitzgerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Popularity and Neglect

And yet it has been largely ignored or at best patronized by the academic establishment. This volume sets out to explore the reasons for both the popularity and the neglect.
FitzGeralds Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Popularity and Neglect

Martin and Mason, The Art of Omar Khayyam, 11; Garrard, A Book of Verse, 187–8. Cohen & Gandolfo, Lewis Carroll and the House of Macmillan, 16–17. A comprehensive list of gift books illustrated by different artists is given in ...
The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists

This volume is a helpful guide for those studying and teaching the novel, and will allow readers to consider the significance of less familiar authors such as Henry Green and Elizabeth Bowen alongside those with a more established place in ...
Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction

This work shows the relevance of tragedy to the modern world, and extends beyond drama and literature into visual art and everyday experience.
Great Shakespeareans Set I

A Life of William Shakespeare, with a Bibliography of His Works, Portraits and Facsimiles. ... Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing. ... The Folger Library: Two Decades of Growth.
Great Shakespeareans Set I

It makes excellent sense for Jeffrey Kahan's study of Kean to be called The Cult of Kean, a cult as idolatrous as that for any star, just as Hazlitt could legitimatelyspeak of having been 'broughtup ... intheKemble religion'.
FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Popularity and Neglect

Carolyn Wells, Rubáiyát of Bridge (New York and London: Harper, 1909), [31]. Gelette Burgess, The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne (New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1904), 8. Vedder's edition was published in 1884 as a folio with hand-drawn ...
Great Shakespeareans Set II

Annotation In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of A.C. Bradley, W.W. Greg and Henry Folger to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays.
Great Shakespeareans Set II

Adrian Poole, Peter Holland. Part V Bradley, Greg, Folger Editedby Cary DiPietro Introduction Cary DiPietro Every age recasts Shakespeare in its own PartV Bradley, Greg, Folger Edited by Cary DiPietro.
Great Shakespeareans Set IV

In Victorian Shakespeare, Volume 2: Literature and Culture, by Gail Marshall and Adrian Poole (eds). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Hortmann, Wilhelm. Shakespeare on the German Stage: The Twentieth Century.
The Oxford Book of Classical Verse

The debts that English poetry owes to the Classics are massive and various. But they have been richly repaid by the astonishingly inventive tradition of translation to which some of...
Great Shakespeareans Set III

Frequently he shows howthe co presence of levityand seriousness can leap up, insudden flashes,in Shakespeare: 'The one greatline thatleaps outso surprisingly towards the end of Love's Labours Lost:'To move wild laughter in the face of ...
Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Auden, Beckett: Great Shakespeareans:

... surprisingly towards the end of Love's Labours Lost: 'To move wild laughter in the face of death”. To which we might compare Winnie, in Beckett's Happy Days: ... what is that wonderful line ... laughing wild ... something something ...
Great Shakespeareans Set III

Faust is a commentary on that picture, a commentary on the Shakespeare. ... his poem of Coriolanus to Shakespeare's, at least with regard to its artistic conception, since it has a graphic unity and succinctness which almost allows the ...
Shakespeare And The Victorians

Some twenty years later James delivered his final verdict on what Irving did best: 'a big, brave general picture, and then, for the figure, [he] plays on ... Sir Henry Irving, Theatre, Culture and Society: Essays, Addresses and Lectures ...
Great Shakespeareans Set IV

Welles' final completed Shakespearean work, Filming Othello (1978), does not instance fellow Shakespeareans Kozintsev, Kurosawa and Zeffirelli specifically, but it is revealing for its postmodern reflections on issues of ...
The Master of Ballantrae

This edition takes as its text the Edinburgh Edition of the novel, the last approved by the author. The introduction considers the novel's inspiration and its place as one of Stevenson's greatest studies in cruelty.
The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation

Great Britain has a long and grand tradition of poets translating classical authors. Virtually every great poet from Chaucer on has tried his or her hand at translation, with the...